Shul News: L.A.’s Tomchei Shabbos delivers food to needy families for Shabbos and Yom Tov but until now there has been no organization that assisted families during the week. Tiferet Teiman Synagogue, in the Pico-Robertson area of L.A., has opened a glatt kosher soup kitchen for children up to age 18. Dinner is served from 4-7 p.m. Monday-Thursday with the exception of Jewish and secular holidays.

Yeshiva News: LINK on Robertson in the Pico area has started a kollel for men ages 18-25. Learning takes place in the mornings from 8:20-10, and in the evenings from 8-9:30, Mondays-Thursdays. Learning is led by Rabbis Asher Brander, Elchonon Shoff and Daniel Weinstock. Exciting shiurim, periodic Shabbos programming, and other events will be offered… Rabbi Ben Geiger has returned to L.A. He is the new English principal of Yeshiva Mesivta Birkas Yitzchak (MBY) and the executive director of Hatzolah L.A.

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Purim is a fantastic time for fantasies, so I hope you won’t mind my fantasizing about how easy life would be if kids would prefer healthy cuisine over sweets. Imagine waking up to the call of “Mommy, when will my oatmeal be ready?”… As you rush to ladle out the hot unsweetened cereal, you rub […]

One of the earliest special Purims we have on record was celebrated by the Jews of Granada and Shmuel HaNagid, the eleventh-century rav, poet, soldier and statesman, and one of the most influential Jews in Muslim Spain.